Home at My Sewing Table Today

A New Jelly Roll Project! 

These fabrics are wonderfully neutral and have beautiful panels in three colors.

These fabrics are

Home by Kathy Schmitz for Moda Fabrics 

Here @ Fat Quarter Shop

More jelly roll fun coming to me blog soon ... :-) 

I Love Tilda

Katniss and I enjoyed opening this lovely surprise package this week!

It is a new monthly club subscription and we were one of the first subscribers.

This is a monthly box for Tilda fabric devotees
and includes many free patterns and perks.

This is organized by

Julie @ The Intrepid Thread

If you are interested in subscribing to this monthly box subscription

Sign Up Here For More Info

New memberships will be accepted soon for a short time only.

The newest Tilda fabric collection
Old Rose @ The Intrepid Thread
is available now.

I am not affiliated in any way with this shop.
I am only a long time customer and new Tilda Club member.

The newest collection of Tilda Fabrics is Old Rose

Here is the Old Rose Catalogue on Issuu

I was not going to purchase the new collection
as I decided to spend my Tilda fabric budget on the club this year.

I am sew blessed!

I received these Fat Quarter bundle of Old Rose and Tilda Soft Solids
and a yard of the gray large rose print as a belated birthday gift!

These fabrics are so soft and lovely.

<3 <3 <3

Quilty Musing and Swooning

Here are my Essex Linen fabrics for the quilt

Inspired by My Quilty Musings Here

These are all wovens, except the plastic wrapped end of bolt I bought for the backing,

which is the grey print from Amanda Herrings "Hello Lovely" collection. 

The white on the left is sashing.

The grey under the fat quarters is Essex Linen Silver, 

which is the chosen background fabric.

The rest of the fabrics and the design is up to me.

I have though about this all summer.

It is time to decide and cut and sew.

This is a quilt for a family members and only the silver grey was chosen by the recipient,

who would like to receive a bed quilt

that looks peaceful and calm ... 

I think I have the fabrics just right ... 

This is the photo of their most recent sea adventure that greeted me this morning. 

Now I need to make my final choice of pattern ...

I have decided on a Swoon Quilt. 

 a pattern that I have never sewn but have been swooning over for some time.

I am trying to decide between the ...

Swoon Sixteen Quilt Pattern by Thimble Blossoms

or the original ... 

Swoon Pattern by Thimble Blossoms

or maybe a medallion quilt with the ... 

Patchwork Swoon by Thimble Blossoms

I thought I had decided on the Swoon Sixteen

until today when the Patchwork Swoon caught my attention.

A friend recently told me that the newer Swoon Sixteen pattern was
a little easier to cut and sew.
I appreciate her help.

It is Decision Time

If any of your have sewn any of these patterns,

 I would very much like to hear 

about your swoon sewing adventures. 

from Coffee and Quotes

Thanks for any input, quilty friends ... :-) 

Quiz Time ~ Which Sewing Notion Are You?

It's another silly sewing quiz.
Don't you love these?
<3 <3 <3 

Take The Quiz Here

I am "Pins

You get MVP every time: you’re the team player we all want on our side! Sometimes the unsung hero, we can always trust you to be there, getting everyone over the finish line every time (with a high-five!)."

Quiz from Broadcloth Studio

I am on pins and needle waiting to hear what you get ... ;)

I Like Thursday # 29 ~ Falling Leaves and Giving Thanks

A new leaf on my 

Autumn Leaves Quilt

which is a very old UFO that I am determined to finish this season.

I found using a small embroidery hoop keeps my work smoother and less wrinkly.

This embroidery stitching is free form.

I could not find the original threads that I used

so I am using anything on hand in the right colors.

The ones in the first post are variegated.

These are not.  It all blends in.

I love fall and fall quilts.

I cannot resist planning a new one when I see one I like.

I saw this quilt on  Lella Boutique on Instagram 

 IG feed that really caught my eye. 

There is an interesting story about this quilt which may be read 

Here on the Lella Boutique Blog

Like many others I wanted to find the pattern.

By request it has been written ...

Leaves of Change Pattern On Sale Here

The prints are a jelly roll.  

They are also perfect with the gray and white setting.

The fabric line is an old, out of print, out of stock

line called "Persimmon"  by 

Basic Grey @ Moda Fabrics

I have some odd size yardage cuts of this fabric line in my stash and I bought the pattern.

I will have to look for some blues and grays that work with this.

I may have a fat quarter bundle of the PB&J line of Basic Grey
in my stash that would work well.

I shall have to do more stash spelunking soon.

This week I have been 

Quilting my National Jelly Roll Day Project Here

doing straight line quilting with my heavy duty walking foot on my Janome, 

so my Amara has had an empty frame since my large batik quilt.

While spelunking through my big quilty closet I dug out another old UFO from 2015

that needs quilting  ... and pressing! 

Beautiful Birds Quilt ~ Original Post Here

I always wanted to do some feather quilting on this one

and was not sure how I would manage it on my regular machine.

Now that I have a long arm, I can quilt it! 

This is also on my fall "get 'er done" list.

The roll of batting on the bottom bar of my long arm table 

is a constant gym machine for my indoor cats.

I put a piece of folded cut batting which has lots of cat scratches in it on top.

I went in the room yesterday and found it on the floor and batting unrolled ... again.

My foot touched the bunched up batting on the floor and met a solid object 

and a little kitty nose poked out at me.

Nutmeg was curled up inside the loose batting roll

and I  rudely interrupted here catnap.

Maestro immediately decided to investigate.

Next photo would have been these two wrestling and romping away

but they ran over my feet and I did not click fast enough.

LOL ... I love my playful kitties.

I am thankful for people everywhere who look for the good things in life,

like a family friend on facebook who reposts images such as these every day

and fills my newsfeed with happy thoughts.
This one she reposted today from ... 

Thankful Thirteen on Facebook

I am linking up today with the

I Like Thursday Bloggers @ Not Afraid of Color

where every week we pause to think about all the good things in life,

big and small. 

Happy Thursday! 

Quilting, Quilting, Quilting ... Again

I am back in the home machine saddle 

on the trail of straight line quilting on my 

"Fab- Boo- Lous" Spooky Table Runner

I love this 

 "Fab-Boo-Lous" Jelly Roll @ Fat Quarter Shop

I have plenty of strip[s and scraps left for another project that I hope to be starting soon.

Have a Fab-Boo-Lous Quilty Day!  

Saving and Stashing and Sewing

All Treats and Sewing Tricks

"Free Pattern" is one of my favorite things.

This new one is a Tuesday Sew Along and will run for five weeks.

@ Moda Bake Shop

Complete Fabric Requirements @ Moda Bake Shop Here

"22 Fat Quarters OR 2 Layer Cakes

4 ½ yards background

1 yard border

5/8 yard binding

4 ½ yards backing"

quoted from HERE

This is a fall remake of the
 Camp Oda May Summer Sew-along HERE

The path choices are listed Spooky Sew-Along HERE

Path A- Dresden Peak

Path B- Star Valley

Border 1

Jessica Dayon is using All Halloween's Eve,

one of my favorite fall fabric lines. 

 I just happen to have stocked up on this now hard to find fabric ... 

Just some of my of my All Hallow's Eve Stash

I have plenty of fabric but am still deciding if I want to try to sew along

or if I want to use different fall fabrics from my stash.

I love fall fabrics!

The Moda Cutting Table has so many free patterns


Here is another free block series currently in progress ...

I Can MakeThat @ Moda Schoolhouse

15 Fabulous 18" blocks

I save all these patterns when I see them.
So many wonderful patterns.
Sew little time.

Happy Saving and Stashing and Sewing! 

A Happy Jelly Sewing Day

Jelly Roll Sewing ~ Part 2

Today it was very hot and summery for the first day of fall.

It is also very dry here and I spend several hours outside watering and tending the gardens.

When I was inside, I was sewing the second part of my

National Sew A Jelly Roll Day Project Started Here

Tomorrow I hope to be quilting this one.

These are only sneak peeks, really.

You shall have to come back in October for the finished project.

It shall be "Fab-Boo-Lous"

:-) 

Autumn Leaves Are Falling

Today was very warm and summery.

As evening fell it found me outside looking for some cool air 

and a quiet place to sit and stitch.

The little red maple leaf fell near me as I stitched.

It is the last day of summer and night is already starting to arrive early in my quilty corner.

By 7:00pm, it was too dark to see and stitch and I had left my portable light inside.

So I have packed up and moved to the living room.

I am working on a very old UFO project ... 

I finished this "schibbles" quilt in 2012

At some point I decided to hand embroider free form autumn leaves on the white squares.

I am a seasonal stitcher so this has been packed away for another year more than once.

Today I chose to pick up this project again.

I hope to have this one done this year before the snow flies.

Autumn is fleeting.

Time will tell.

Sew A Jelly Roll Today!

Just look at these colorful jelly roll strips ... :-)

This fabric is 

Fab-Boo-Lous by Dani Mogstad for Riley Blake Designs

 I bought this pretty spooky jelly roll Here @ Fat Quarter Shop ,

my favorite online shop with a local quilt shop feel. 

 Today is

National Sew A Jelly Roll Day @ Moda Fabrics

Sew A Jelly Roll Day @ Fat Quarter Shop

Shop 20% Off Jelly Rolls @ Fat Quarter Shop

More Free Jelly Roll Patterns From Fat Quarter Shop

and as a bonus ...

Jelly Roll Braid Free Tutorial from Lori Holt

Are you sewing a Jelly Roll Today?

I am sewing a jelly roll today!

This is my 265th blog post this year.
I have challenged myself to post each day in 2019.
100 More Posts to Go!

Happy National Sew A Jelly Roll Day!